immigrant

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A person who leaves one country to settle permanently in another.

n. A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

adj. Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

n. A person who comes to a country from another country in order to permanently settle in the new country.

n. A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Immigrating; having immigrated.

n. One who or that which immigrates, as a person, an animal, or a plant; specifically, a person who migrates into a country for the purpose of permanent residence: correlative to emigrant, as strictly used.

He has expressed his pleasure with the leading U.S. presidential candidates 'views on immigration reform and the amnesty they support and his displeasure to "The New York Times" about what he calls immigrant bashing in America.

Those protesters say they are marching for what they call immigrant rights, but the illegal alien lobby is manipulating the language of these protests and demonstrations for much wider and often hidden political purposes.

"Critics conveniently connect the word 'immigrant' with the word 'illegal' when talking about the Welcome Dayton plan, but that's not what this initiative is all about," City Manager Tim Riordan said in a news release.

In 1938, with the increasingly harsh Stalinist policies regarding foreigners, she and her husband moved to Paris, where she continued her artistic and theatrical activities, primarily in German immigrant theater companies.